Kuyper on the Church

Abraham Kuyper in his "Lectures on Calvinism" makes a distinction between the visible and the invible Church. He insists that we must not allow for an absolute and perfect correspondance between the two. It is not as if everything the visible church does is authorized by the invisible Church. Because we hold that the invisible Church is made up of those the Lord chooses we must allow a plurality of expresssion in the visible church.